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Disclosed is an ammunition magazine which may be made of plastic, pre-loaded with ammunition rounds and stored in the loaded condition for extended periods of time without deterioration. A spring motor is mounted on and drives an ammunition follower to urge the ammunition rounds toward the magazine\

Disclosed is an ammunition magazine which may be made of plastic, pre-loaded with ammunition rounds and stored in the loaded condition for extended periods of time without deterioration. A spring motor is mounted on and drives an ammunition follower to urge the ammunition rounds toward the magazine\s feed opening, and includes a drive gear which engages a gear rack formed on an interior wall of the magazine housing. The spring motor is disposed in an operationally unstressed condition during storage of the loaded magazine. To ready the magazine for use, a plastic strip having a gear rack formed thereon may be pulled from the bottom of the housing, thereby rotating an energizing gear which winds the spring motor to an operationally stressed condition.

대표청구항 ▼

An ammunition magazine adapted to be pre-loaded and stored for extended periods of time comprising, in combination: an elongated sector-shaped hollow housing having top and bottom ends and having an ammunition feed opening at the top end; the housing having opposite side walls, and front and rear ed

An ammunition magazine adapted to be pre-loaded and stored for extended periods of time comprising, in combination: an elongated sector-shaped hollow housing having top and bottom ends and having an ammunition feed opening at the top end; the housing having opposite side walls, and front and rear edge walls joining said side walls; a plurality of stacked ammunition rounds substantially filling said housing, the rounds of ammunition in the stack being disposed approximately parallel to said side walls; a gear rack extending longitudinally of the housing along the interior of one of said side walls; an ammunition follower moveable along the interior of said housing and disposed adjacent the bottom end thereof in engagement with the stack of ammunition rounds; a spring motor mounted on said ammunition follower for movement therewith along the interior of the housing; said spring motor including a rotary drive gear engaged with said gear rack for urging the ammunition follower along with the ammunition toward said ammunition feed opening; said spring motor being disposed in an operationally unstressed condition; said spring motor including a separate rotary energizing member, and means limiting rotation of the energizing member to the direction which places the spring motor in an operationally stressed condition; and, means manually engageable from the exterior of the housing for rotating said energizing member to energize said spring motor to an operationally stressed condition.